Ccbhc expansion grant for excelsior wellness center, spokane WA. - excelsior is a trauma-responsive integrated healthcare and education organization

Accredited by the council on accreditation (COA) as of july 2019. We provide a specialty fully integrated youth medical department, integrated behavioral health providers, care coordinators, peer support specialists, family response specialists, and a variety of direct support specialists. We offer a host of hospital diversion programs, CO-occurring enhanced outpatient and residential services, an on-site fully accredited middle school and high school, nutrition services, therapeutic recreation services, and are seeking certification for our 34 acre therapeutic arboretum with a specialized recreation and therapeutic environment. Excelsior's primarily provides care to serve a diverse group of youth (ages 10-24) with a range of presenting difficulties, which compromise their abilities to live happy, healthy lives. Excelsior is spokane region's largest provider of integrated behavioral health services for youth, children, and families in eastern washington state. Excelsior's wellness center (EWC) proposed ccbhc model will continue to provide the core ccbhc direct services excelsior already provides. EWC will use the funding to expand services available to build out more services for transitional aged youth (TAY), opioid use disorder (OUD), provide high intensity caregiving respite, increase engagement for female veterans dealing with acute stress, MST or ptsd, accelerate social determinants of health resources, and recruitment of a psychiatrist. We currently serve about 1382 individual a year and about 24 veterans. This funding will vastly expand our outreach and cooperation with the VA and other veteran programs in spokane increasing veterans' services available through excelsior. We also will be able to serve more adults, families, and transition aged youth, and children as we increase capacity with this funding.